William Gibson, The Peripheral (2014)

[Dave Monroe]

All Tomorrow's Parties is actually my favorite. Idoru is underappreciated.
I liked Pattern Recognition fine, but Gibson faced a problem Pynchon
didn't, i.e., pretty much having to provide some sort of solution ( he
chuckled hn I asked, facetiously, if he was familiar w/ Lot 49). I still
haven't read th last on myself, bu am looking forward to this one.

On Monday, September 15, 2014, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool, I shall pick it up. Loved Neuromancer back in HS but I re-read it
recently, like a year or so ago, and it wasn't quite as awesome as I
remember. I like it still but I dunno, there are a few annoying bits that
are just too cool for school but it's endearing in a way I guess, that's
how I look at it. Maybe it just reminded me of being a stupid kid. It
remains something any Gibson fan must read though of course. Pattern
Recognition is a better book imo, a lot may disagree though I'm not sure.
Anyway The Peripheral looks promising with the description of it being a
return to sci-fi melded with his newer novels that take place in the recent
past. I'm still wary of those book blurbs and descriptions, I don't wanna
get my hopes up too high, but I watched that video of him reading the first
few pages and it sounded purdy good to me. It's something to quell my
anticipation for the Inherent Vice movie in the meantime at any rate.
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
>>
>> I am absolutely going to read The Peripheral  -  I’ve been a Gibson fan
since Pattern Recognition and read Spook Country and Zero History as soon
as it came out.  Those three are kind of connected.  I still haven’t got to
Neuromancer but it’s been on my shelves for too long.
>>
>> Bekah
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>> On Sep 14, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I think I might like it. Still haven't got around to Spook Country or
Zero History but I think I'll pick this up, have something in the near
future to look forward to. Anyone else gonna read it? Maybe make it a thing
we can talk about here?
>> >
>> > On Sep 14, 2014 7:28 PM, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> >
http://www.penguin.com/book/the-peripheral-by-william-gibson/9780399158445
>> >
>> > http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral
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>> >
http://io9.com/watch-william-gibson-read-from-his-brand-new-science-fi-484885010
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>> >
http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/the-peripheral-by-william-gibson-cover-art-and-synopsis
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http://www.bookdepository.com/Peripheral-William-Gibson/9780399158445?b=-3&t=-20#Fulldescription-20
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